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Non-governmental organisations are often faced with a major challenge: it is not enough to implement capacity-building programmes to positively influence or change the practice of professionals, as often laws, national strategies and national policies may conflict with the approach or practice that NGOs are promoting. Influencing national policy-making is often a challenging task for organisations, one that involves a lot of communication possibly both to the public at large, but also to decision-makers in a targeted way. We want to help you with these issues. If you have a specific question on how to develop your advocacy action, or how to communicate with decision-makers, write to us and we will arrange a one-on-one skype discussion with our advocacy advisor. Feel free to ask for his advice!

Useful policy documents

The purpose of this toolkit is to assist child rights advocates and other professionals in influencing the governments at national and sub-national level, to promote the development of better care services for unaccompanied and separated migrant c

Destination Unknown campaign member Terre des Hommes, together with 11 other organisations, have produced a roadmap providing an overview of the current situation on the Aegean islands in Greece, as well as on the Greek mainland.

Coinciding with the informal Justice and Home Affairs Council, Missing Children Europe joined hands with the Maltese President’s Foundation for the Wellbeing of Society to bring together key stakeholders concerned with the protection of migrant ch

This explanatory paper by Child Circle for Child Protection Hub for South East Europe provides a framework for identifying the type of EU opportunities that arise in (1) Child Protection in Near Neighbourhood and the enlargement negotiations and (

Advocacy is challenging to evaluate and measure. Evaluation plays a critical role in the assessment of progress and determining if and when your organization is meeting your advocacy goals. It also helps to develop realistic long-term and...

(Brussels, 24/06/2015) Since the beginning of this year, more than 1800 people have died in the Mediterranean trying to reach the European shores, 50 times more than the figure recorded over the same period in 2014.

The 9th European Forum on the rights of the child aimed to foster the exchange of good practices, to facilitate connections at inter-sectoral and inter-agency level (both nationally and transnationally), and to promote more effective cooperation a

Every day, millions of children throughout the world are subjected to abuse, neglect, exploitation and violence in different settings, including in their homes, schools, communities and work environments.

This document consists of standards and good practices, that were derived from responses to the online public consultation on integrated child protection systems, where respondents were asked to share good practice/standards that could be of use t

This document is a compilation of standards and useful links that were mentioned or submitted by respondents to the online public consultation on integrated child protection systems, as well as standards that are included and referred to in the Eu

This summary contains key legislative instruments for Member States' policies and measures aimed at promoting and developing an integrated child protection approach.
The summary is based on the following regulations and directives:

Campaigning is a powerful tool for bringing about social change, but it is a risky pursuit for many charities, involving as it does the spending of often scarce time and money on activities for which success is far from guaranteed. Measuring the...

This report summarises the main arguments of the Plan/ODI report The Economic impact of school violence (2010) and draws on Plan’s campaign and programme experience of the past two years tackling violence against children in school.

ECPAT, as part of its ‘Stop Trafficking Children and Young People Campaign’, together with the Body Shop, produced a factsheet about the situation of child trafficking in Malta, including the country’s legislative framework and...